Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. One of Adolf Hitler's close associates and most devoted followers, he was known for his skills in public speaking and his deep and virulent antisemitism, which led to his supporting the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth29 October 1897
CountryGermany
purpose news propaganda
Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.
gun simple imagine
...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
hatred target propaganda
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
peace war thinking
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
ideas secret propaganda
This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.
lying believe people
If you tell the same lie enough times, people will believe it; and the bigger the lie, the better.
lying weight triumph
There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.
men yield psychology
There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.
lying thousand remains
A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth
acting free-will propaganda
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.